JRuby is regarded as the most stable and efficient implementation of Ruby. Running JRuby on top of Google App Engine for Java gives access to many interesting possibilities, including running Rails on top of Google’s infrastructure. Exactly how to make this happen is not totally apparent, though, and there are …
This videos reviews the key differences between statically typed languages like VB or C# and the dynamic nature of Rub with some light on the history of the Ruby language. There are some live coding demos so everyone can get a taste of what Ruby programming is really like. Video …
Presented at the Ruby Meet Up by Yehuda Katz. Yehuda will walk you through some of the new features in Rails 3, including how Rails has become significantly more modular, making it easier than ever to replace a part of Rails with an equivalent component.
FastRI is an alternative to the ri command-line tool (used for browsing Ruby’s stdlib and third-party API docs). It is much faster, and also allows you to offer RI lookup services over DRb. FastRI is smarter than ri, and can find classes anywhere in the hierarchy without specifying the “full …
Rails & Sinatra apps can now be deployed to Google’s infrastructure. We will introduce some of our latest tools for developing JRuby apps for Google App Engine, and highlight the Ruby APIs.
Look at the idea of working Outside-in and the importance of focusing on customer value. Introduce Cucumber a testing tool which allows writing plain text feature documentation which through Ruby steps is executed. Examine how to use it, why it is useful and how it compares with existing tests such …